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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
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Directed by Justin Chadwick. With Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto, Robert Hobbs. A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

Brooklyn (2015)
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Directed by John Crowley. With Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent. An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
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Directed by Jim Sharman. With Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien. A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
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Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.

Margot (2009)
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Directed by Otto Bathurst. With Anne-Marie Duff, Penelope Wilton, Con O'Neill, Lindsay Duncan. At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ...

Strength and Honour (2007)
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Directed by Mark Mahon. With Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.

Eastern Promises (2007)
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Directed by David Cronenberg. With Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin. A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Clash of the Titans (2010)
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Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng. Perseus demigod, son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering heaven and earth.

Eastern Promises (2007)
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Directed by David Cronenberg. With Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin. A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Gracie (2010)
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Directed by Brian Percival. With Jane Horrocks, Tom Hollander, David Dawson, Ellie Haddington. In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in...

Sorority Row (2009)
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Directed by Stewart Hendler. With Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Teri Andrez. A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.

J. Edgar (2011)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton. J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Wagner (1981)
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TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times.

Young Adult (2011)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser. Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
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Directed by Angela Robinson. With Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton. The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.

Sorority Row (2009)
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Directed by Stewart Hendler. With Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Teri Andrez. A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.

The Lego Movie (2014)
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Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
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Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria. Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.

State of Play (2009)
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Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren. When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.

Jack Reacher (2012)
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Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

Despicable Me (2010)
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Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud. With Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.

Brassed Off (1996)
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Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

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Ben-Hur (1959)
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Directed by William Wyler. With Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet. When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

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Obsessed (2009)
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Directed by Steve Shill. With Beyoncé Knowles, Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Jerry O'Connell. A successful asset manager, who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage. But when a temp worker starts stalking him, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.

Eat Pray Love (2010)
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Directed by Ryan Murphy. With Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis. A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

The Shape of Water (2017)
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Pride (2014)
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Directed by Matthew Warchus. With Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine. U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Julie & Julia (2009)
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Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

Gone Girl (2014)
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Directed by David Fincher. With Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry. With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Brassed Off (1996)
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Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
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Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.

Farce of the Penguins (2006)
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Directed by Bob Saget. With Samuel L. Jackson, Alyson Hannigan, Bob Saget, Brie Larson. A mockumentary that illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies.

State of Play (2009)
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Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren. When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.

Breaking the Waves (1996)
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Directed by Lars von Trier. With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr. Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

Burn After Reading (2008)
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Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich. A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.

We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
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Directed by John McKay. With Sascha Bailey, Frances Barber, Aneurin Barnard, Fiona Button. A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey.

Blackout (2008)
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Directed by Rigoberto Castañeda. With Amber Tamblyn, Aidan Gillen, Armie Hammer, Katie Stuart. Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
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Directed by Angela Robinson. With Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton. The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.

Heat (1995)
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Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

Realive (2016)
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Directed by Mateo Gil. With Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, Barry Ward. Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected.

State of Play (2009)
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Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren. When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.

Glorious 39 (2009)
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Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.

Georgy Girl (1966)
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Directed by Silvio Narizzano. With James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling. A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

Realive (2016)
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Directed by Mateo Gil. With Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, Barry Ward. Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected.

W. (2008)
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Directed by Oliver Stone. With Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Hanks. A chronicle of the life and presidency of George W. Bush.

Downfall (2004)
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Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Philomena (2013)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham. A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
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Directed by Marc Lawrence. With Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Elisabeth Moss. In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program.

Gracie (2010)
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Directed by Brian Percival. With Jane Horrocks, Tom Hollander, David Dawson, Ellie Haddington. In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in...

Downfall (2004)
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Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Georgy Girl (1966)
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Directed by Silvio Narizzano. With James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling. A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

Farce of the Penguins (2006)
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Directed by Bob Saget. With Samuel L. Jackson, Alyson Hannigan, Bob Saget, Brie Larson. A mockumentary that illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies.

War Book (2014)
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Directed by Tom Harper. With Phoebe Fox, Adeel Akhtar, Ben Chaplin, Shaun Evans. Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

Colombiana (2011)
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Directed by Olivier Megaton. With Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Callum Blue, Jordi Mollà. A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.

Guys and Dolls (1955)
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Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine. In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Election (1999)
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Directed by Alexander Payne. With Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell. A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.

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The White Ribbon (2009)
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Directed by Michael Haneke. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Glorious 39 (2009)
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Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
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Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow. A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Whale Rider (2002)
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Directed by Niki Caro. With Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis. A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
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Directed by Nick Moran. With Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild. A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

Ultraviolet (2006)
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Directed by Kurt Wimmer. With Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu. A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages.

Yes Man (2008)
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Directed by Peyton Reed. With Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins. A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year.

Captain Phillips (2013)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

J. Edgar (2011)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton. J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Oklahoma! (1999)
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Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Maureen Lipman, Hugh Jackman, Josefina Gabrielle, David Shelmerdine. Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.

United 93 (2006)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas, J.J. Johnson. A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Run Lola Run (1998)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Heat (1995)
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Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
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Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow. The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
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Directed by Nick Moran. With Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild. A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

Shutter Island (2010)
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012)
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Directed by Hilary Audus. A young boy whose dog has just died moves into the house in whose backyard the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman the boy rebuilds him,fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa,who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
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Directed by Justin Chadwick. With Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto, Robert Hobbs. A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

Chaplin (1992)
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Chaplin: Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw. An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp

Never Let Me Go (2010)
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Directed by Mark Romanek. With Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small. The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood.

The film is based on the book Never Let Me Go by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize.

Philomena (2013)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham. A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.

Ted (2012)
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Directed by Seth MacFarlane. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale. John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.

Brooklyn (2015)
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Directed by John Crowley. With Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent. An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

The Shape of Water (2017)
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.